Microsoft Corp. hired Patton Boggs LLP to lobby the federal government on Google Inc.’s $3.1 billion buyout of online advertising company DoubleClick Inc., according to a disclosure form.

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The lobbying disclosure form was posted online Thursday by the Senate’s public records office.

Under a federal law enacted in 1995, lobbyists are required to disclose activities that could influence members of the executive and legislative branches. They must register with Congress within 45 days of being hired or engaging in lobbying.

One Response to “Microsoft sics lobbyists on Google’s DoubleClick buy”

[...] Ah, the pungent aroma of new astroturf. Actually, the surprise is not so much that Microsoft is doing this, but that Burson-Marsteller is doing it so clumsily. Hmm, I wonder what Microsoft’s lobbyists in Washington on this issue are doing to to earn their fee? Filed under Coopetition, Google, Governmental Relations, General Business, Microsoft, DoubleClick [Permalink] [TrackBack] [...]